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Healing the Unaffirmed: Recognizing Emotional Deprivation Disorder (Revised and Updated Edition)

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An excellent book revealing the importance of unconditional love and affirmation in one's life. Baars & Terruwe describe the discovery and symptoms of Emotional Deprivation Disorder -- a syndrome which results from a lack of unconditional love and emotional strengthening in one's life. EDD manifests itself with symptoms such as feelings of loneliness, insecurity, insignificance, and worthlessness. Unaffirmed persons generally feel unwanted, unloved, inferior, depressed, afraid of the world, oversensitive, unlovable, and unable to make friends and relate to others. This results in an emotional prison which is only able to be opened from the outside -- by another person giving unselfish, unconditional, authentic love. To be healed, the individual must feel worthwhile to another person, loved, and understood. Truly an important book for our time -- a time when so many are deprived of the emotional affirmation and love that they need.

"Healing the Unaffirmed" by Dr. Conrad Baars offers excellent insights for all pastors and counselors. Dr. Baars' approach to the human person is entirely compatible with Christian anthropology, and provides practical steps toward working with those individuals who are the victims of our increasingly depersonalized society. Since alienation and emotional detachment will continue to harm family and community life for some time to come, Dr. Baars' work will not cease to grow in relevance.

After reading this book, I have greater insight into my own weakness as well as better understanding other friends and family members. Once you better understand these things you are better able to grow and heal. This is a very important book. Many people have noticed a positive change in me since I have read and put into practice the principles in this book. I keep extra copies on hand for people who want to know why and how I have changed for the better.

This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand today's emotional issues, whether they desire to help themselves or friends and family. It's very readable and reveals the inner working of an unaffirmed individual. This author has great wisdom- a truly remarkable man.

If you are looking for a book to help with your own, or another's depression, or if you are looking for who Christ's commandment to "love one another" is followed out in the emotions and psychology, then get this book.

Very easy to read - my book club read it one month.

This is a very little known disorder that is probably affecting countless of people. This book
explains the disorder and enlightens the reader about how it affects the person suffering from it. I finally had an answer to the behavior of my loved one, prior to reading Healing the Unaffirmed I didn't understand what was happening. I highly recommend it to anyone.

This is a great book about a condition that I think is ramapant in our society, and written from a Catholic perspective. Great resource for any Mental Health Clinician.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone even though they are not suffering from emotional disorder but could understand others better. This book has changed how I feel about myself, and I can finally understand and identify with so many things that didn't make sense as to why I was feeling so badly about myself and had several depressions. A plus for anyone's library. I have bought one for my brother as I'm keeping mine as a reference.